A 14-year-old Texas girl was brought to tears after hearing her mother's voice clearly for the first time.
Breanna was diagnosed with severe hearing loss as a baby and her hearing worsened as she got older. Eventually, her hearing decreased so much that she struggled to understand speech despite wearing hearing aids.
In August, Breanna received a cochlear implant for her left ear and shortly after activating, she was able to hear her mother.
"Getting to see her hearing sounds better than she ever has before, getting to see that emotion – the happiness – is just so special," Kelsey Gross, senior marketing manager at The Center for Hearing and Speech, told CBS.
According to CBS, Breanna will work with an audiologist and speech therapist for the first three months after her implant is turned on. They will later determine if her right ear is a candidate for an additional cochlear implant.
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